android: using adjustPan and without scrolling the title bar

Question

I'm using android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" in my manifest.xml. It's doing me the job just fine but there is something retarded about it. when i focus an EditText view that's, say in the bottom half of the screen, the title bar is also scrolled with the content of the activity.

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all i want is to freeze/float the title bar in place when scrolling the content. just like this:

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and no, I don't want to use adjustResize It overlaps views on top of each other

any help is greatly appreciated, been looking for the answer for a long time.

I'm using a `RelativeLayout` in my mainActivity.xml,, that could be the reason views overlap — Ace, Mar 24 '14 at 05:04

Ace · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-07T09:52:39.073

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Found it!

Simply changing the root view in the layout xml file to a ScrollView does the job.

I don't even need to specify android:windowSoftInputMode

Of course I have to have everything else in a single layout as the child of the ScrollView

Edit

your .xml file should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    ... >
    <LinearLayout>    // could be any other layout but linear works well here
        //insert all other views of the activity here
    </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

edited May 07 '16 at 09:52

answered Mar 24 '14 at 05:29

Ace

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Can you please show your code! I'm facing the same problem but unable to solve with given answer. – Ammar Jul 22 '14 at 07:59
@Ammar sorry for the the delay, check the answer again. don't forget to up-vote it plz – Ace Aug 03 '14 at 00:49
Where should I be placing the custom titlebar in this xml? – Ammar Aug 04 '14 at 09:14
sorry i dont know the answer to that, i stopped coding for a while and got rusty, i hope a google search can help u – Ace Aug 05 '14 at 11:29

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered May 04 '16 at 15:11

The answer suggested by Ace is essentially what is needed. My answer just aims to make things a little clearer.

There are two things you need to do. Firstly in the Manifest set the following on the activity. android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

Then, in the activity's layout you'll want to set a ScrollView beneath the Toolbar/Title Bar, as shown in the code below.

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        .../>

    <ScrollView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            ...>

            <RelativeLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                ...>
           </RelativeLayout>

    </ScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>

From what I understand, here's how it works. When you open the soft keyboard on your device, it will 'adjustResize' the layout of the activity. As the layout sits in a ScrollView, this is the part which is resized, and made smaller. Therefore the Toolbar/Titlebar will stay in place and the layout in the ScrollView will be scrollable when the keyboard is shown.

doesnt work, the relative layout also moves, using adustpan though, but same principle here — Gustavo Baiocchi Costa, Jan 20 '17 at 17:16

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